Research InBrief

The NERI Research In-Brief series takes issues raised within NERI working papers and puts them in the form a concise and accessible document.

13 Apr 2021

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Labour market performance in Ireland pre-Covid: We already had a new normal

Ireland’s labour market has seen dramatic shifts in employment over the past two decades. In the years recent to 2019, it was observable through a...

Research InBrief
19 May 2020

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Employment and access to childcare during the Covid-19 crisis

Little consideration appears to have been given to the misalignment between the reopening of many sectors of our economy whilst access to childcare...

Research InBrief
30 Apr 2020

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A comparison of the Tax take in Ireland and the UK to other European states

This inBrief compares the tax take in the Republic of Ireland and UK to other wealthy European countries. The analysis suggests that the Republic and...

Research InBrief
05 Feb 2020

Research

Precarious Work in Ireland: Evidence of a structural change

This NERI inbrief looks at trends in indicators of precarious employment and suggests that recent improvements may belie hidden precarity. Nugent...

Research InBrief
28 Jan 2020

Research

In-work poverty in the Republic of Ireland

This inBrief shows that for all seven categories of worker set out in this analysis, deprivation rates are higher in 2017 than in the years leading up...

Research InBrief
23 Jan 2020

Research

Matching skills needs with skills reserves inBrief

In this research inBrief, we summarise a recent NERI working paper: Matching skills needs with skills reserves:Protecting workers & communities for a...

Research InBrief